The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.

  • -- Walter Bagehot 沃尔特·巴格霍特

最好的历史不过是伦勃朗的艺术;它生动地揭示了某些特定的原因,那些最好的和最伟大的原因;它把其余的一切都留在阴影里,看不见。

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How vivid is the suffering of the few when the people are few and how the suffering of nameless millions in two world wars is blurred over by numbers.

少数人的苦难是多么鲜明,而人民是多么稀少,两次世界大战中无数无名百姓的苦难是多么被数字模糊了。

But Nature cast me for the part she found me best fitted for, and I have had to play it, and must play it till the curtain falls.

但是大自然把我选为她认为最适合我的角色,我不得不演这个角色,而且必须演到幕布落下。

I have a great family by the way, but you need to find people who can pull something out from you that might be otherwise unseen.

顺便说一句,我有一个伟大的家庭,但你需要找到一些人,他们能从你身上挖掘出一些东西,否则你可能看不到。

All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.

所有形式的弄巧成拙的行为都是看不见的和无意识的,这就是为什么他们的存在被否认。

From praise, as from a shadow, a man is neither bigger nor smaller.

从赞美中,如同从阴影中,一个人既不高大也不矮小。

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.

一个人可以生活在一个想法的阴影下而不去理解它。